# CVE-2025-71374: picklescan detection bypass via profile.Profile.run

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2025-71374-picklescan-detection-bypass-via-profile-profile-run  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-06-30. Updated: 2026-06-30  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2025-71374 · Severity: high · CVSS 8.1 · Published 2026-06-30

picklescan is a security tool used to scan Python pickle files and machine learning models for malicious code. A flaw in the tool allows specially crafted files to bypass its security checks by using a specific Python profiling function. If a user trusts the tool's clean scan result and opens the malicious file, an attacker could gain full control over the user's system.

Technologies: [picklescan (PyPI)](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/picklescan). Vendors: [PyPI](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/pypi).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2025-71374 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-71374 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2025-71374?** High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 30 June 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** picklescan (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=0.0.29.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2025-71374?** Yes. picklescan (PyPI): upgrade to 0.0.29 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.

**How is CVE-2025-71374 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a software library.

**Am I affected by CVE-2025-71374?** Check whether you run picklescan (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## How to fix

- picklescan (PyPI): upgrade to 0.0.29 or later

  ```sh
  pip install "picklescan>=0.0.29"
  ```


## Technical details

A deserialization vulnerability exists in picklescan due to an incomplete blocklist of dangerous functions. Specifically, the tool fails to identify the 'profile.Profile.run' function when it is invoked within a pickle's '__reduce__' method. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious pickle file (often disguised as a PyTorch model) that bypasses detection. When a victim subsequently loads the file using 'pickle.load()', the embedded payload executes arbitrary system commands. This issue is addressed in version 0.0.29.

## Affected products

- picklescan picklescan < 0.0.29

## Identifiers

- CVE-2025-71374
- GHSA-x696-vm39-cp64

## Timeline

- 2025-08-26: advisory: GHSA-x696-vm39-cp64 published
- 2026-06-30: disclosed: CVE-2025-71374 published to NVD

## References

- [https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-x696-vm39-cp64](https://github.com/mmaitre314/picklescan/security/advisories/GHSA-x696-vm39-cp64)
- [https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/picklescan-arbitrary-code-execution-via-undetected-profile-profile-run](https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/picklescan-arbitrary-code-execution-via-undetected-profile-profile-run)

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